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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Congratulations to Four Way Books author Eileen Pollack, author of the forthcoming In the Mouth , a collection of short-stories. Her story "The Bris" was selected by Stephen King and Heidi Pitlor for the Best American Short Stories 2008 , out now from Houghton Mifflin.

In the Mouth is due out in March 2008. “Eileen Pollack writes with great acuity, humor, and intelligent resignation about the various ways family love is called upon and revealed. This book is terrific company,” comments Lorrie Moore.

Taking on the hidden surfaces and interior worlds beneath any family unit, In the Mouth , is witty, affecting, and irresistible. These five stories and a novella are one moment light-hearted and the next tinged with sadness or frustration. In them, Pollack shows us how secrets that might sunder a family often become its strongest connection. Whether in the form of an unopened safe a family is selling in a yard sale, or a son realizing his father is guilty of murder, these stories investigate the nerve endings of human relationships. Pollack masterfully places the reader into her characters’ innermost worlds: we think their thoughts, feel their insecurities. “That reflection you see […] may be your own,” warns Rob Cohen, while Gish Jen applauds Pollack's work as “funny, rueful, wise stories, steeped in absurdity, pain, possibility -- the work of a writer who has lived.”

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

We are pleased to announce that Farrah Field's collection RISING is the winner of the Four Way Books Levis Poetry Prize, selected by Tony Hoagland. Farrah lives in Brooklyn, New York, and earner her MFA at Columbia University.

Thank you to all who entered the Levis Poetry Prize.

In 2008, we will run the Intro Prize in Poetry for first books. The judge will be Brigit Pegeen Kelly. Guidelines will be available in November 2007.

In 2009, we will run the Levis Prize, open to all poets. The judge will be Mary Jo Bang.

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Publishing 6-8 books a year.
Reading Series: Catch us at Readings on the Bowery where we feature our own authors as well as writers from around the country.
We are proud recipients of grants from
New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses through their re-grant program. We are also grateful to the private foundations and many individuals who support our programs.
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